PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925-2008) studied Classics at
Aberdeen University and at Christ's College Cambridge before being
appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in
1955, at Edinburgh University, where he remained for the rest of
his career. He headed the Greek Department at Edinburgh from 1980
until his retirement in 1989 and was appointed to a Personal Chair
in Greek in 1983. Ancient music and Greek drama were the main
focuses of E.K. Borthwick's academic output, and he had a
particular flair for pinpointing, elucidating, and solving textual
difficulties. But his interests ranged much further, as the works
collected in this volume demonstrate; and his papers intrigue and
entertain where a less lively pen might have made the points at
issue seem dry and abstruse. Taken together, his articles
constitute a stellar example of what a classicist with professional
training as a philologist, an enquiring mind, an exact eye for
detail, and the ability to communicate enthusiasm, can achieve in a
life's work. The volume opens with Professor Borthwick's inaugural
lecture on Homer,`Odyssean Elements in the Iliad' (Edinburgh,
1983). The editor, Dr. Calum Maciver, has then arranged Borthwick's
63 scholarly articles, published between 1959 and 2003,
thematically under six headings: Ancient Music, The Pyrrhic Dance,
Drama, Zoologica, Ancient Sport, Miscellanea. The volume includes a
consolidated bibliography of all works cited, a general index, an
index of Greek words, and an index locorum. A selection of the
titles under each of the headings indicates the range and variety
of Kerr Borthwick's scholarship: Ancient Music: - a Neglected
Technical Term in Greek Music Notes on the Plutarch De Musica and
the Cheiron of Pherecrates `Music While You Work'in Philodemus De
Musica, The Pyrrhic Dance: Trojan Leap and Pyrrhic Dance in
Euripides' Andromache The Dances of Philocleon and the Sons of
Carcinus in Aristophanes'Wasps P. Oxy. 2738: Athena and the Pyrrhic
Dance; Drama: Two Scenes of Combat in Euripides A Phyllobolia in
Aristophanes'Clouds? Euripides Erotodidaskalos? A Note on
Aristophanes Frogs 957 Zoologica: A Grasshopper's Diet- Notes on an
Epigram of Meleager and a Fragment of Eubulus Limed Reeds in
Theocritus, Aristophanes, and Propertius Seeing Weasels: The
Superstitious Background of the Empusa Scene in the Frogs Starting
a Hare: A Note on Machon, Fr. 15 Bee Imagery in Plutarch Bees and
Drones in Aristophanes, Aelian and Euripides Ancient Sport: The
Gymnasium of Bromius- a Note on Dionysius Chalcus, Fr. 3 Death of a
Fighting Cock The Cynic and the Statue Miscellanea: Notes on"The
Superstitious Man" of Theophrastus Dio Chrysostom on the Mob at
Alexandria The Scene on the Panagjurischte Amphora: A New Solution
A Note on Some Unusual Greek Words for Eyes Aristophanes and
Agathon: A Contrast in Hair Styles A`Not Too Severe' Epigram of
Gaetulicus Socrates, Socratics, and the Word
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